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Momofuku Summer Stollen!

I know we have some stollen fiends here, so I thought this would be worth posting—the Milk Bar booth at Madison Square Eats is selling summer stollen! When I saw stollen on the board, I thought for sure it must be a mistake, but it's not.

The summer stollen has cherries, cantaloupe, peaches, etc., in lieu of the winter fruits. No pistachio, but plenty of almond flavoring. It's just as delicious as the holiday version.

The last few years, it was available only in December and only at their stall at the Union Square holiday gift market, and only up until 12/24 or sold out (whichever came first). The other locations of Milk Bar did not carry it.

I'm not usually a fan of stollen, but this one was pretty good. I think I mainly liked the fact that there wasn't much (or any?) citrus flavor, since I don't care for that. There were various pieces of dried fruit, and it was a sweet cake overall. Like loratliff says, it has a strong almond flavor. I'm attaching a picture

I very much liked the choice of fruits in this stollen (thanks for sharing Dave MP!). But I do prefer my sweets to be cakey rather than bready, so ultimately this wasn't my cup of tea. Though it would probably be very tasty with tea.

I bought the normal Christmas one once. Maybe that particular one was abnormally bad, I have to say I was very disappointed. I am not a stollen expert but I recall the ones my mom used to make when I was in my teens were so much better. I am not speaking with sentimentality either.

It's the exact same base; the only difference is in the fruit. The summer version does not have ginger, currants, raisins or cranberries—it has sour cherries, peaches, cantaloupe and a couple other things I can't remember.

(No whiskey listed either, which is definitely an ingredient in the holiday version.)